Record holder for talking machines



Dec. 20, 1927. 1,653,541

P. D. BODWELL ET AL RECORD HOLDER FOR TALKING MACHINES Original Fild July so. 1925 f-T l.

PaulDBod well Henr y WBellou/s Patented Dec. 20,1927,

UNITED stares PATENT ,orrlcs.

PAUL n. BODWELL AND HENRY w. BELLOWS, or wAYNns ono, rnnNsYLvAN A, As- SIGNORS T DECA-DISG rnonoennrn cor runn or wernnsiaono, rENNsYL- VANIA, A conronnrron' or PENNSYLVANIA.

RECORD HOLDER FOR TALKING MACHINES.

Application filed July 30, 1925, Serial No. 47,099. Renewed May 12, 1927.

-Our said invention relates to a talking machine record holder and it is an object of the same to provide a device which shall hold a record securely in position in a mannor to avoid damage to the edges or the faces of the record. This device is intended particularly for use in connection with a talking machine employing a stack of records and playing them successively but is- 2* rounded by a ring 11 of aluminum said ring.

consisting of a thin fiat metal strip bent approximately into U-shape in section-as clear- '7 vention, what we clalm as new and desire to ly shown in Figure 2. A wire 12 provides a frame over which the strip may be bent, e. g. from a cylindrical ring, into the shape illustrated in Figure 2 after which the wire may remain in place between the flanges of ring 11 to strengthen the device. We do not, of course, limit ourselves to this method of manufacturing the device.

Between the sides of the ring, we provide a number of grippers 13 as shown in Fig. '3 each of which comprises a strip of spring metal having inwardly bent flanges 14c which straddle the adjacent edge of a record disk.-

the parts 14 of one or more grippers and spring the others out after which the record is forced into the plane of the ring 11 and held in place by the grippers, each of which engages with its opposed flanges 14: over opposite sides of the edge thereof so as to'hold it in place. The reverse of the process described serves to dismount the record.

One important advantage of the device is that it eliminates chipping of the edges of the records. Preferably also, the distance between the opposite sides 18 of the ring is such that the records may be piled in a stack with their faces free from engagement with each other thus preventing any injury to the sound producing grooves and ridges of the disk, whether the records are in the machine or outside, and whether they are stacked on one another or otherwise supported.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that various changes may be made in our device without departing from the spirit thereof and therefore we do not limit ourselves to what is shown in the drawings and described in the specification but only as indicated in the appended claims.

Having thus fully described our said insecure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A holder for disk records comprising a part surrounding the outer edge of the record, and means for resiliently holding the record and said part in position relative to each other, substantially as set forth.

2. A holder for disk records comprising a part surrounding the outer edge of the record, and resilient means for holding the record and said part in position relative to each other, substantially as set forth.

3. A holder for disk records comprising a device of greater thickness than such disk record said device adapted to be positioned about a record, and means for maintaining therecord in position midwayhet-ween the planes of the extremities of such device to prevent injury to the face of the record. substantially as set forth.

4. A holding device for disk records comprising a grooved ring adapted to be positioned about a record, and resilient means in the groove arranged for engagement with the outer edge of a record, substantially as strips against movement circumferentially set forth.

5. A holding device for disk records comprising vaiggoovecl ing adaptedjtoibe, positioned about a record, resilient'stpipsl ql' metal, loc d in the QQY S id w e 1 W? ingflanges straddling the edge Of the ieiiorcl', zincl means for holding each Of siiid of the ring, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof e have, hei ennto set 0111' hands at, 'Waynesboio, Pennsylvania,

this29tl1 day of July, A. D. nineteen hun dred and twenty-five 7,

PAUL J); BOD'YVELIQ;

WV. BELLOWVS. 

